We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

Opportunity does not knock. You have to find it

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.

You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.

It’s not about fancy literary prizes. It’s not about seeming impenetrable or smart or high fallutin. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I am trying to make you feel a story, that’s all.

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

Once Im in the ring, Im there to win no matter what it takes. Nobody and nothing can stop me, my will cannot be broken

In the end it all comes down to enthusiasm. Your creativity is basically your expression of God-force.

Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.